RACE FOR ARCTIC DOMINANCE HEATING UP: The Arctic may be the world’s smallest ocean, but with it warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe, it has become the largest new area for competition among the United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark, and Norway.

And with roughly half of all the coastline in the Arctic, some 15,000 miles, belonging to Russia, Moscow is increasingly asserting its claim to be the dominant power of the “high north.” The U.S., by comparison, has a mere 1,060 miles of Alaska coastline in the Arctic.

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